MACKAY BLUE [MORGAN] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'F' the black line was dropped

the black line was dropped - by mistake or design - in the Vestiarium Scoticum of 1842

Weaving Status: Due for completion mid-Apri 2025

Sir Jean Dunbar of Mochrum

Wilson called the pattern No

MACKAY BLUE [MORGAN] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'F' the black line was droppedOften called the Blue MacKay or Morgan. The design comes from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartan. Of the better known tartans, the book offers some minor variation, but in other cases it provides the only